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Quotations of selected author
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1. "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
categories: Family and Loneliness
2. "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."
categories: Youth and Age
3. "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer."
categories: Love
4. "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
categories: Human
5. "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
categories: Sin and Conscience -:- Truth and Falsity
6. "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
categories: Richness and Money -:- Trust
7. "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned."
categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
8. "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
9. "A young person knows the rules but the old person knows the exceptions."
categories: Youth and Age
10. "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
categories: Intellect, Judgement
11. "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
categories: Education
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